July 2nd, 2010
Slideshare registration e-mail:
Your SlideShare account is verified. And I’d like to personally welcome you to the World’s largest community for sharing presentations.
You did not just “personally invite me” to do anything. You sent me a form e-mail. Please don’t lie to me in a condescending manner. In general, services should be honest, or in this case, just leave out the details. In this case,
Thanks for verifying your SlideShare account, and welcome to the world’s largest community for sharing presentations!
would have worked just as well without leaving a bitter taste. I really hate SlideShare for more reasons than this, the only reason I signed up was to download some slides.
Update: Now this is personalization! (via HN) It’s about time I got to highlight something good.
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June 30th, 2010
so it turns out I remember the icons for apps, not because of their designs, but because of their locations.
After “organizing” the icons into stacks, I can’t find anything. Then I have to use the icons again. I used to be able to start apps without really looking at the phone.
The icons are secondary, I guess.
Reference: UXMyths: http://uxmyths.com/post/715009009/myth-icons-enhance-usability
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June 30th, 2010
http://ondrejka.net/stupid/2010/06/27/1244-doomed-to-repeat.html
What would help is if Amazon or Apple made their apps location aware and created a revenue sharing program for small bookstores. Increased ebook awareness in exchange for rewarding the curators. This would work even better if more ebook readers offered subscription and recurring revenue purchase options, so the local book store could sell higher value packages than a single book, making more significant rev shares possible.
Actually, that can apply to anything! Is this the future of the record store as well? I’m sick of all these music discovery websites.
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